MAN : PAST AND PRESENT. 



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wide domain, comprising at least the Sunda Islands and 

 Indo-China, regions at that time still connected by continuous 

 land across the shallow waters, nowhere over fifty fathoms deep, 

 which now flow between the Malay Peninsula, Borneo, Sumatra 

 and Java. Lastly, he was about the average height, say, 5 feet 

 6 inches, and had a cranial capacity of perhaps 1000 c.c., that 

 is, double that of the highest apes (Gorilla, Orang, both 450 to 

 500), not greatly inferior to that often occurring amongst the 

 lowest present races (Australians, Negritoes, Bushmen, 1100 to 

 1300), and just midway between Gorilla and the highest present 

 races (Europeans 1500), as shown in the subjoined diagram. 



European 1550 c.c. 



Low races 1250 c.c 



P. erectus- 1000 c.c 



SIMIAN STEM. 



In an instructive paper " On the Intermediary Links between 

 Man and the Lower Animals," read before the Edinburgh Royal 



